Lead Business Analyst

About the role

Sprezzatura is seeking an experienced Lead Business Analyst / Business Process Engineer to lead requirements and business process analysis supporting the modernization of the VA’s Budget Tracking Tool. This is a working lead position responsible for overseeing requirements across the Functional Implementation and Data & Integrations workstreams, while also directly performing requirements development and business process analysis. The Lead BA will work with VA stakeholders and technical teams to translate complex business, financial, and data needs into clear, implementation-ready requirements for VIPPS. U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident required. Position is contingent on contract award.

Responsibilities

• Lead the requirements management process across the Functional Implementation and Data & Integrations workstreams
• Provide guidance and quality oversight to Business Analysts while also personally developing requirements and supporting artifacts
• Facilitate requirements workshops, interviews, process walkthroughs, and backlog refinement with VA stakeholders and delivery teams
• Develop and maintain requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, business rules, process flows, and data requirements
• Analyze current-state and future-state business processes and translate business needs into actionable requirements for OneStream configuration and implementation
• Support integration requirements, including business/data rules, mappings, reconciliation, interface behavior, and exception handling
• Ensure requirements are complete, traceable, prioritized, and sufficiently mature to support planned sprints and releases
• Identify and drive resolution of requirements gaps, conflicting business rules, dependencies, and outstanding stakeholder decisions
• Partner with OneStream, integration, and testing resources throughout implementation, testing, UAT, and stakeholder validation
• Maintain requirements and supporting documentation in Jira, Confluence, and applicable program repositories

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, Finance, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience
• 7+ years of business analysis, requirements management, or business process engineering experience supporting complex IT implementations
• Experience serving as a Lead or Senior Business Analyst, including oversight or mentoring of other analysts
• Strong experience with requirements elicitation, analysis, documentation, user stories, acceptance criteria, process modeling, and requirements traceability
• Experience facilitating requirements sessions with business stakeholders and technical teams
• Experience supporting requirements and backlog development in an Agile delivery environment
• Strong analytical, facilitation, communication, and stakeholder-management skills
• Ability to meet applicable VA background investigation/security requirements
• VA or other Federal Government experience
• Knowledge of Federal PPBE, budget formulation/execution, financial management, acquisition, or IT portfolio processes
• Experience with OneStream, ERP/EPM, financial management, or other configurable enterprise platforms
• Experience developing requirements for system integrations, APIs, data mapping, reconciliation, and data-quality controls